University Physics Texts Web Sites:
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers, by
Douglas C. Giancoli, has for each chapter a handy list of
objectives, practice questions, physlet problems and practice
problems for which you can change the data so you can redo the
same problem over and over again. Note that any other Prentice
Hall texts
(like College Physics by Jerry Wilson) will
share the same set of
problems.
- Sears & Zemansky's University
Physics, By Young and Freedman has good, challenging
multiple choice questions and problems. You may also find
"How To Succeed in Physics by Really Trying"
interesting.
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers,
by Serway & Beichner, has "quizzing and
testing" and "practice problems with
answers".
- Not so good ones -
ones: Tipler (a text many students like very
much), ...
- Fundamentals of Physics, Halliday,
Resnick and Walker. This used to have nice "Inetractive
LearningWare Problems" (maybe still available in
CD-ROM, and maybe back soon/now on web), which would guide you through the solution to
selected problems from the text (indicated in the
textbook by "ilw"). There are also solutions to
few selected problems from the text (indicated by
"www" in the textbook), hints to some more
problems, sample quizzes and much more.
Magnetism:
From time to time a student recommends or we come across a link that
may be of interest to the students of this course.
-
LRC Circuit Lab I cannot try this on our unix workstations, but I
hear its good. Try at your own risk!
- U of
Florida Physics Offers a multemedia approach to introductory
physics (non-calculus).
- BadScience,
Skeptical Inquirer,
The titles say it all...
-
Feynman This is more like a
fan of the genius club. Among othr things, it links to streaming video of
famous lectures.
- GA Tech's
Physics Resource Site has many goodies,
but I like particularly the link to Physics Humor.
-
Physics and Astronomy Fun, yeah, "fun" as in cartoons, jokes, etc
- Wireless electricity,
really about power transmission without wires.
- Superhero physics
and how Hollywood does not repect the Law (of Phsyics).